The Irish standard., 1887-04-30

ternational courtesy by participating il
meetings of that kind. For years pas
said Mr.. O Brien, the people of IRELAND
have been denied the right to earn
living and now the British parliament il
trying to make it acrime for the Irist
people to ask Almighty God to ALLOW
them to live. 1.-The people there ar
afraid of the law, for they are coming tx
the United States every day in order t.
escape the tyranny Of the English gov
eminent. Irishmen have done theil
duty by this country-which has giver
them protection and furnished then
homes-and now it is right that the PEG
pie of the United States should show
their opinion of the obnoxious Engllst
voices in a thorough manner. If the
English government passes this coer-
cion bill they will only hasten the day
that will make the greatest lesson of ar
Englishman's life.'
HON. EUGENE NJ. WILSON
said they had assembled to send out
across the sea their expressions Of sym.
pathy to the people who had been de-
prived of their rights for more than zoe
years. He deplored the fact that the
Tory government was attempting to
deprive the Irish people of trial by jury.
He showed that under the existing sys.
tenn of land tenancy in Ireland the PEG.
pie were growing poorer and poorer.
He could see why England should not
grant Ireland the privilege of managing
her own affairs just the same as she
conferred that right upon the colonies
of the British Empire.
REV. JOHN CONWAY
Said that the meeting was held for the
purpose of "kicking the coercion bill
into cooked hat.'' ''Coercion,'' he
said. ''has been the system of the Brit
ish rulers followed up from time i'm
memorial. The Irish people have been
made slaves as far as English laws
could make them. The United States
will aid Gladstone now by giving free
assertion of opinion in regard to this
coercion business"
BISHOP G. D. FOss
gave assurance Of his hearty sympathy
with the Irish cause. America was I'M
der obligation to Irishmen for the SER
vices they had rendered in behalf of
temperance and morals. He related
some instances of agrarian oppression
that had come under his own notice
while travelling in Ireland.
REV. M D. SHUTTER
declared himself in hearty sympathy
with the meeting. That which con-
cerned the rights of Ireland concerned
America. He referred to the past blum
ders of English rule in Ireland, and en-
tered his protest against the coercion
policy about to be inaugurated.
COL. R. G. BENTON
did not need to inform the meeting that
his sympathy was with them. Every
one is with you, said the Colonel,-the
lawyers and the ministers, the Repub.
licans and the Democrats, and the ortho-
dox and the heterodox. He could not
understand why the British government
should so absurdly withhold from Ire
land the right for which they asked. He
hoped Mr.. Gladstone would live to see
the triumph Of right and justice.
REV. JAMES M'GOLRICK
hardly knew whether to address the
meelingSas an Irishman or an American
citizen Some years ago he renowned
all allegiance to Queen Victoria. Great
injustice has been done by England to
Ireland in the past. Money had been
sent to this county to poison the minds
of the public against the Irishmen, but
he was glad to see that but little DAM
age had been done in this manner. The
time was near at hand when the Irish
people would assemble in their own
parliament on College Green.
RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were read
and passed by unanimous vote:
WHEREAS, The present government of Great
Britain, representing Irish landlord rule and
actuated by traditional repressive instincts to-
wards the masses of the people, proposes, by a
penal enactment, to abolish freedom of speech,
liberty of the press. trial by jury, the right of
public meetings, the sanctuary of the humber
home the family secret, immunity of the citizen
from extra judicial torture, on oath by the land
lord MAGISTRATE and to strangle liberty struggling
through the centuries of constitutional rights in
Ireland; and
WHEREAS, The contemplated coercion act,
aimed to perpetuate landlord power and vice
regal despotism in Ireland institutions foreign
to the genius of constitutional age-forebodes a
legalized reign of terror, under which homes will
be laid desolate, families will be dispersed, and
the passions of direst despair and deepest racial
hatred will be aroused; and
WHEREAS. Against this insulting outrage on
Christian people the voice of Scotland, Wales
and the masses of English people swells the in
dignant protest of the Irish races yet landlord
Tories. needless of warning, reckless of the
rights of humanity, propose to answer the de-
mands for constitutional freedom with force; and
WHEREAS, Exceptional crime in Ireland is not
even pleaded in justification of this contemplated
abolition IF a nations rights but, admitted not